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the Royal Botanic Garden of Copenhagen, “ an excellent — 
practical botanist, and one of the best of men.” I need not 
say what pleasure it gives me to be the medium of making 
the genus public. 
I feel very incompetent to speak of the affinities of this 
grass; partly owing to my limited acquaintance with Exotic 
Grasses, and partly because my specimens are not in so per- 
fect a state as were to be wished. If I am correct in con- 
sidering the flower to possess only a single, two-valved, floral 
covering, (and I can find no trace of any other,) then the 
genus may be looked upon as allied to Asprella, Solander, 
(Leersia, Sw.): but my ignorance on these points is the less 
to be regretted, since Mr. Brown is charged with the publi- 
cation of this and the whole of the rich collection of Grasses 
in the possession of the Hon. the East India Company ;—and 
assuredly no one is better or so well qualified for the task. 
Tas. LXXVI. Holboellia ornithocephala. Plant :—natural 
size. Fig. 1, Portion of the rachis, with a flower. Fig. 
2, Sterile flower. Fig. 3, Flower, containing a pistil. 
Fig. 4, Portion of a leaf. Fig. 5, Side-view of a seed. 
Fig. 6, View of the underside of a seed :—magnified. — . 
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(TAB. LXXVII] 
SPATHICARPA HASTIFOLIA. 
Mow«ccia Monanprta. Nat. Ord. AROIDEÆ. 
Gey. CHAR. Sparuicarpa (genus novum.) Spatha lineari- 
oblonga, acuminata, subcymbiformis, marginibus involu- 
tis; intus linea media longitudinali floribus masculis 5 
 fæœmineis immixtis staminibusque sterilibus lentiformibus 
3 mee 
Wallich, in the same place, “ consecratum amico et preeceptori carissimo 
Frederico Ludovico Holboel, Horti Botanici Regii Hafniensis hortulano 4 
terrimo, botanico peritissimo, operi Hornemanni Flora Dania (Economica nun 
pato aliusque contributori, quique hortum Calcutte ditavit thesauris a, 
